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Afimilk MPC™
Installation Manual
The Afimilk MPC is a milk meter, used for measuring milk yield
and forcontrolling milking point apparatus at bovine milking
parlors. When used together with AfiFarm 5 dairy herd
management system, Afimilk MPC is used for collecting milking
data and alerting milkers to animal health problems. Milkers can
also send animal information to the computer database via
Afimilk MPC control box. Afimilk MPC can be used in the most
common parlor types and brands, and control common milking
point aparatus such as vacuum valves, pulsators, removal etc.
International
Committee for
nimal Recording
Conformité
Européenne
(European
Conformity)
Standards
Institute of Israel
afimilk Kibbutz fikim, 15148 Israel
Tel: 972-4-6754812 | Fax: 972-4-6751862
[email protected].il | www.afimilk.com
Afimilk MPC
: Product P/N 4498999
This manual: P/N 9440320
Date First Release - March 2013
2
nd
Release (Ver2.16) - Nov. 20
th
2013
3
rd
Release (Ver 3.0) – June 2015
Afimilk MPC carries all necessary regulations and approvals as the documents at
the following pages show. It is officially approved by IC R committee for cow
milk recording and passed all regulatory safety tests.
Without prior notice and without obligation, the
contents of this manual may be revised to incorporate
changes and improvements.
Every effort is made to ensure that the information is
complete and accurate at the time of publication.
Nevertheless, fiMilk cannot be held responsible for
errors or omissions.
Trademarks, patents, and copyrights apply.
Contents of this manual may be revised to incorporate
changes and improvements.
CAUTION
responsibility to install, operate, and maintain the
system in accordance with all applicable codes,
regulations, and safety measures
.
Table of Contents
Introduction .............................................................................................. 15
System Requirements ........................................................................... 15
Overview of Components ......................................................................... 16
The afimilk MPC Control Box ................................................................ 16
Afimilk MPC Milk Meter Body .............................................................. 17
fimilk MPC Inner Structure ............................................................. 18
fimilk MPC Options ............................................................................. 19
Ordering fimilk MPC ....................................................................... 19
fimilk MPC Connection Box ............................................................ 20
Operation Sequence ................................................................................. 21
Mounting Components ............................................................................ 23
Mounting fimilk MPC Control Box ...................................................... 23
High Protection Cutout in cabinets ................................................... 25
Plugging the main cable at the Control Box ..................................... 28
Mounting the Milk Meter Body ............................................................ 29
Milk Meter Body Mounting Bracket ................................................. 29
Vacuum and Clean-air Lines ................................................................. 30
Installing Vacuum & ir Lines ........................................................... 33
Washing the Vacuum Line ................................................................ 35
Vacuum Shut-off Valves ........................................................................ 36
Installing the Power System ..................................................................... 37
Power Supply Transformers ................................................................. 38
Laying Cables and Connecting Wires ....................................................... 39
Cables .................................................................................................... 39
Cable Protection
................................................................................ 39
Communication Cable .......................................................................... 40
Laying Communication Cables .......................................................... 40
Connecting Communication to the PC .............................................. 41
Power Cable .......................................................................................... 43
Connecting Power Cables and Filter
.................................................. 43
Using Connection Boxes to wire the system ........................................ 44
Inserting Cables into the Connection Box ......................................... 44
Connecting Wires to the fimilk MPC Control Box .............................. 45
fimilk Cable Braids Offerings
........................................................... 48
First Time Operation ................................................................................. 49
fimilk MPC Start-up Sequence ............................................................ 50
Loading Default Parameter Values ....................................................... 51
Parameters Load Procedure ............................................................. 51
Setting Milking Point ID Numbers ........................................................ 52
How to number Stall ID ..................................................................... 52
Setting ID numbers at the Control Box ............................................. 53
fiMilk MPC Parameters of Milking Functions ..................................... 54
utomatic Cluster Removal ( CR) .................................................... 54
CR ctivation ............................................................................... 54
CR Parameters ............................................................................. 55
Vacuum valve &Milk Sweep ................................................................. 58
Milk Sweep Parameters .................................................................... 58
Pulsation Control .................................................................................. 59
Pulsator Installation .......................................................................... 59
Pulsation Parameters (Milking) ......................................................... 59
Pulsation Rates .............................................................................. 59
Pulsation Ratios ............................................................................. 59
FCP Programs – Flow controlled pulsation ....................................... 60
PreMilk Stimulation ....................................................................... 60
dditional Operation Parameters......................................................... 61
Cleaning Mode parameters .............................................................. 61
Display parameters ........................................................................... 61
Setting-Up Parameters ............................................................................. 62
fimilk MPC and fiMilk Configuration ................................................ 62
Setting Parameters via the afimilk Computer................................... 63
Setting-up parameters via the control box .......................................... 65
Changing Parameter values .............................................................. 65
Parameter Groups definitions ........................................................... 66
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